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Money is a good thing to address before you travel to Uzbekistan. It's important to bring all the money you want to spend in Uzbekistan in cash. That might seem counterintuitive, but the country is cash-only, so cards are useless. More importantly, the official exchange rate is about half that of the black market rate, so getting money at ATMs will cost you. Changing money on the "black market" is commonplace, and nothing to be worried about. Money changers hang out near major hotspots, and changing money is hassle-free. Just make sure to bring a big bag to carry your money in! The biggest bill they have is 1000 som, which exchanges roughly to 16 or so cents. One US Dollar is around 3000 Uzbek Som and an average meal is around $5, or roughly 15,000 som, so you'll need a lot of bills.
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Morning Minutes: June 19
Word of the Day
Ambiguous am-BIG-yuh-wus (adjective) Doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness; inexplicable; capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways - www.merriam-webster.com
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National Juneteenth Observance Foundation
Forty-one states recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or observance. June 19 is set aside to celebrate the end of slavery in America, and the NJOF is working to make it an official national observance. Learn about the history and legacy of the Juneteenth movement.
Number to Know
2: Approximate number of years before slaves in Galveston, Texas, received news of the Emancipation Proclamation. (See below for more information.)
This Day in History
June 19, 1865: Slaves in Galveston, Texas, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is celebrated as Juneteenth.
Today's Featured Birthday
Writer Salman Rushdie (66)
Daily Quote
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel

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The clean lines and high shine of the crystal stones create a statement with style. Choose the summer brights for a pop of colour, or go for the more subtle and futuristic white opal. This ring is a must-have for those who want contemporary style alongside eye-catching sparkle.
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117 North Greenwood Street, Marion, OH (740) 383-5680
Marion Metropolitan Housing Authority provides affordable housing for up to 644 low and moderate income households through its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program..
Low-income housing managed by Marion Metropolitan Housing Authority is located in Mansfield, OH.
Households with a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher managed by this housing authority must rent within its jurisdiction.
As of the HUDs most recent Voucher Management System report, Marion Metropolitan Housing Authority manages 501 active Housing Choice Vouchers.
The following table summarizes types of vouchers managed and the monthly costs of each as of December 31st, 2021:
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According to the 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households database, the housing authority's voucher program has an annual turnover of 13% having issued approximately 47 vouchers in the past year. The average voucher holder has received housing benefits for 7 years and 3 months. According to the 2016 PSH database, persons who were issued a voucher in the preceding 12 months waited an average of 22 months on the waiting list1.
According to 2016 Q4 Picture of Subsidized Households data, the average voucher household contains 2.4 persons and has a household income of $11,174 per year. 95% of households were very low income (VLI) and 71% were extremely low income (ELI). 21% of households had wages as a major source of income, 1% of households had welfare (TANF, General Assistance or Public Assistance) as their primary source of income, and 74% of households had other income (Social Security, Disability or Pension) as their major source of income.
2% of households were headed by a person 24 years old or less, 56% were headed by a person 25 to 49 years old, 26% were headed by a person 51 to 60 years old, and 16% were headed by a person 62 years old or older. In addition, 1% of households were headed by a person 85 years old or older.
47% of households included children, 9% of which had two adults in the household. 43% of households with children have a female head of household. 79% of all households were headed by a female.
21% of all voucher households were headed by minorities with 20% of all heads of households being Black and 0% being Hispanic.
Of all households participating in the Marion Metropolitan Housing Authority Housing Choice Voucher program, 29% include at least one person with a disability. 51% of households with a head of household 61 years or less were headed by a person with a disability. 84% of households headed by someone 62 or older were headed by a person with a disability.
28% of voucher holders reside in a home with zero or 1 bedroom, 26% with 2 bedrooms and 43% with 3 or more bedrooms. 25% of voucher recipients are considered overhoused, meaning they occupy a rental unit larger than their family size requires.
The average monthly tenant contribution to rent by Marion Metropolitan Housing Authority voucher holders in 2016 was $276 and the average monthly HUD expenditure per voucher holder was $536. The average utility allowance across all voucher recipients is $123.
1. This Picture of Subsidized Households data field is the average wait time of those who received a voucher in the preceding 12 months. Due to special voucher programs like VASH, recent waiting list purges, or waiting list preferences the average wait time can vary significantly from one year to the next and it is entirely possible many current applicants on the waiting list have been waiting for assistance for far longer.


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In the last two years, astronomers discovered several exoplanets in binary systems: two stars locked in mutual orbit. These systems come in several types, with the planet orbiting one or both stars. About half the binary systems involve stars that are very far apart: 1000 times the Earth-Sun separation or more. Naively, we might think that those systems are more stable, since the companion star is so far away. However, a new study shows that may not be the case.
Nathan A. Kaib, Sean N. Raymond, and Martin Duncan ran extensive computer simulations to model exoplanets residing in wide binary systems. They found that perturbations from other stars outside the binary system had a profound effect on the shape of the system's orbits. In some cases, planets were ejected from the system entirely or ended up in larger or highly eccentric (elongated) orbits. Based on these results, the researchers argued that some of the observed exoplanet systems with eccentric orbits may actually reside in wide binary systems where we haven't yet detected the companion stars.
A significant fraction of stars in the Milky Way are in binary systems. Some, like the Alpha Centauri system, are tight binaries: the two stars comprising Alpha Centauri are about 18 astronomical units (AU) apart. (1 AU is Earth's average distance to the Sun. For comparison, Neptune's average distance is about 30 AU.) However, some are known as wide binaries, with separations greater than 1000 AU.
In wide binaries, the mutual gravitational attraction between the stars is relatively weak. This allows other, neighboring stars to have a significant influence. As the other stars of the Milky Way gradually shift in their slow orbits around the galactic center, their gravitational influence on the binary fluctuates in time. The effect is to change the shape and size of the wide binary system, altering the mutual orbit over periods of billions of years.
While the process isn't exactly rapid, the new study revealed it can have a profound impact if there are planets orbiting one of the stars in the binary. Alteration of one star's trajectory increased both the size and eccentricity of the planets' orbits. Over a simulation period of about 10 billion years, 30 to 60 percent of systems designed to resemble our Solar System lost one or more planets, leaving the remaining planets in vastly different configurations.
According to the standard models of planetary formation, planets form in regular, circular orbits—ones with nearly zero eccentricity, in other words. However, observations have found many exoplanets are in highly eccentric orbits, and many are much closer to their host star than the naive planet-formation scenario would suggest.
The authors of the study presented their simulations as a possible resolution to some of these problems. If the exoplanets in eccentric orbits actually are in wide binaries—in which the companion star is undetected—then their strange orbits were caused by gravitational perturbations from the natural cycles of the Milky Way. This idea is also in agreement with an earlier paper, which posits that retrograde orbits of some exoplanets—planets orbiting opposite to their star's rotation—could be explained if there once was a binary companion star that is now absent.
These results also suggest that planetary orbits in wide binaries may be less stable over billions of years than they would be in tight binaries. If the two stars are closer together, the authors argued, they are less subject to disturbance from the ebb and flow of external gravitational influence. Of course, any planetary system with three or more interacting objects exhibits complex behavior, given long enough time; even the Solar System cannot be proven to be stable forever. (The fact that it has been relatively stable for 4.5 billion years is no guarantee that state will continue in perpetuity.)
The wide-binary model is certainly testable with further observations. Faint companion stars farther than 1000 AU would be hard to detect or challenging to prove they are gravitationally bound to the exoplanet system. However, if they could be identified for at least some eccentric exoplanet orbits, that would lend a lot of support to the proposed model.
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Diamond Painting Kit
Anyone can be an artist with diamond painting kit and create stunning masterpieces. This special form of art has introduced various themes for every taste and occasion. Diamond painting kit includes everything you need to create a beautiful work of art achieving the subtle tones to make your painting look realistic. It's also an excellent choice for leisure activity.
Special Note: The clarity of the finished product is low if the size is less than 30x30cm.The small size is only suitable for practice.
The larger the design canvas, the more detail in the final product.
Frame is not included
Pasting Area: All of the pictures are fully covered with diamonds unless otherwise indicated.
Each one includes everything you need to complete an entire picture. The kits are packaged properly in order to prevent any kind of damages. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Please contact us if you have any questions.
About Size: The product size in the purchase order is the same as the actual picture, while the side length of the canva is 5 cm longer than the actual picture. If you order a product with a size of 30×40cm, the size of the canva is approximately 35×45cm.
The size of square drills is 2.5×2.5mm, and that of round drills is 2.8×2.8mm. The clarity of square drills-based products is 11% higher than that of round drills-based ones.
Why Diamond Painting?
- HIGH QUALITY CANVAS: Each kit features beautifully detailed outlines of the composition with each color indicated by a symbol. The painting canvas is waterproof and has a sticky background so that you could easily complete the picture.
- SUITABLE FOR ALL: Diamond painting kits inspire people of all ages. These exciting kits don't require any knowledge or skill to fulfill a classic artwork.
- RECREATION: Creating your own art is ecstatic and entertaining. Diamond painting kits are fun and easy to paint. Experience a sense of achievement as well as reduce stress, enhance self-confidence and most importantly enjoy your free time.
- FANCY DECORATION: With patient effort you can create an amazing work of art that will add life to any space.
- PERFECT GIFT: Diamond painting can enhance relationships and provide strong bonding experience for friends and family. It is a great gift for birthday, wedding or new accommodation.
How To Diamond Paint
PART 1 - Setting Up the Canvas
- Purchase a diamond painting kit at our online store here.
- Understand how to read the canvas. The canvas is composed of tiny boxes that are colored and labeled with numbers, much like a cross-stitch canvas. Each number corresponds to a diamond color. The numbers are written on a chart, with the corresponding bag and diamond color written below or next to it. The chart is typically printed on the side of the canvas. Some squares may contain a letter or symbol instead; treat this as a number.
- Unroll the canvas and tape it down onto a flat surface. If the canvas won't lay flat, roll it back the other way, then unroll it. Spread it down onto a flat surface, then secure the edges with masking tape. This project can be time consuming. Consider taping the canvas to a board, which you can move out of the way easily.
- Peel back part of the plastic covering on the canvas. Do not peel all of the plastic away; 1 to 2 inches(2.54 to 5.08 centimeters) will be plenty. Run your fingernail along the plastic to crease it so that it doesn't roll forwards. Some kits come with pre-cut plastic strips. In this case, simply peel the first strip off.
Pour out your first crystal color into the tray. Take a look at the patch of canvas you just exposed. Choose a box to start with, and note the number in it. Look the number up on the chart, then find the bag with the same number. Open up the bag, and pour out some of the crystals onto the tray that came with your kit. Some kits come with multiple trays. You can use the other trays for the other colors in that section.
Part 2 - Applying the Diamonds
- Dip your pen tool into the gel or wax that came with your kit. Open up the packet of gel that came with your kit. Dip the narrow end of the pen into the gel/wax to pick some up. This will make it possible for the pen to pick up the crystals.
- Use the pen to pick up a crystal. Gently press the tip of the pen against the top, faceted part of the crystal. Lift the pen away from the tray; the crystal should be stuck to it. Keep the tray just below the edge of your canvas; this will make it easier to access.
- Gently press the crystal against the corresponding square. Pull the pen away; the crystal should be stick against the canvas. If you are just starting out, it might be a good idea to press lightly at first. This way, if the crystal is off-set, you can nudge it back into place, then press down on it to secure it. This is exactly like painting by number, except that you are using crystals instead.
- Fill the rest of the squares in that section. Work one color at a time and refill the pen with gel as needed. When you finish filling in all the squares with the same number code, move onto the next color. This will help you work faster and stay organized. Avoid resting your hand against the canvas; the more you touch the sticky surface, the less tacky it will become.
Peel away more of the plastic covering, and fill in more squares. Continue filling the canvas in using the same technique as before. Work in 1 to 2-inch (2.54 to 5.08-centimeter) wide sections, one color at a time. When you completely fill in a section, move onto the next one. Do not peel the entire plastic covering away, or the adhesive on the canvas will get dirty and lose its tack.
Part 3 - Finishing Your Work
- Cover the canvas with the plastic sheet that it came with. If you discarded the sheet, you can cover it with a piece of paper or parchment paper; avoid using wax paper.
- Go over the canvas with a rolling pin. This will press down any loose diamonds and secure them. If you don't have a rolling pin, you can use a can or jar instead. You can also gently rub the canvas with your hands instead.
- Stack some heavy books on top of the canvas overnight. This will help further adhere the diamonds to the canvas and ensure that they bond properly. If you don't have any books large enough to cover the canvas, you can use another flat, heavy object, such as a box or cutting board.
- Peel the tape away. Lift the books off first, then peel the plastic covering off. Peel the tape from the corners of the canvas. Do not trim the excess canvas way, as this may cause the fabric to fray.
- Frame the canvas. Remove the glass from the frame first, then insert the canvas into the frame. Fold the excess edges down, then place the backing into place. Leave the glass out, as it will only dull down the diamonds' sparkle. For a fancier touch, place the canvas behind a mat first; this will give the canvas an additional border within the frame. Choose a color that complements the diamonds.
1.Here are everything in the package for you to get start with diamond painting.
- 1x Pre-printed Numbered Canvas with sticky adhesive surface
- 1x Diamond Pen
- 1x Glue for the Diamond Pen
- 1x All the diamonds (square) needed
- 1x Diamond Tray
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Free shipping 7-18 days (expect delivery in 7-18 days after order date)
During sale peak seasons there may be a delay up to 5 days.
We care about the speed of delivery and know its importance in improving customers' shopping experience on our Site.
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WASHINGTON — Fewer people bought new U.S. homes in February. Sales fell to their slowest pace in five months, a sign that the housing market has yet to recover fully from brutal winter weather.
Sales of new homes declined 3.3 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 440,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That was down from a revised rate of 455,000 in January.
Buying dropped off during February in the Northeast, which was battered by snowstorms. It also fell in Western states, where last year's price increases have made homes less affordable.
Most economists expect sales to rebound as the weather improves and the spring buying season begins. Not only does warmer weather bring more traffic to open houses, but families are usually reluctant to move in the middle of the school year.
Still, several other indicators from February suggest that a sector-wide rebound has yet to begin.
An index tracking mortgage applications fell last month to its lowest level since December 2000. The Mortgage Bankers Association reported its seasonally adjusted index of refinancing and home-buying demand dropped 8.5 percent to 348.5 in the week ended Feb. 21.
The National Association of Realtors said last Thursday that sales declined 0.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.6 million. That was the sixth decline in the past seven months.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index was 46 in February. Readings below 50 indicate that more builders view sales conditions as poor rather than good.
And builders started work on 907,000 homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in February, the Commerce Department said last week. That was down 0.2 percent from January, when construction had fallen 11.2 percent.
Freezing temperatures and snowstorms have caused a slip in housing activity this past winter while higher mortgage rates and higher prices had acted to slow growth earlier in 2013.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index reported Tuesday that prices rose a healthy 13.2 percent in January compared with 12 months earlier. That's down slightly from a 13.4 percent increase in 2013.


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Tuesday night the Washington Nationals return to town to face the Diamondbacks and Astros in a couple of series that promise great weather, light summer traffic, and some big promotions at Nationals Park.
The Nationals are in need of some home cooking after a brutal week which netted as many devastating injuries as team victories. For loyal Nats fans, it seems like an eternity since Nationals Park was packed and rocking for the team's last home series against the Baltimore Orioles.
Regular readers don't need to be reminded that this is Abe Lincoln's T-shirt Tuesday. The first 10,000 fans to enter Nationals Park on Tuesday will receive a free Washington Nationals Abraham Lincoln T-Shirt. Given his recent record, it's doubtful that Abe needs any help to win the presidents race, but it should be noted that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson won on their free t-shirt nights, so the pressure is now squarely on Abe.
The homsetand will also feature Friday night fireworks, Hispanic Heritage night, and another free movie Saturday night after the game on the Nationals Park HD scoreboard. As for the presidents race, it's hard to imagine how our racing presidents could top the excitement of the last homestand. After a week that featured kangaroos, president-on-president violence, sabotage, grudge matches, and an "unsanctioned" victory by Teddy Roosevelt, it was good to get a week off. I'm assuming that Teddy has gotten over it as well and will not be working with the grounds crew on Tuesday.
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Solitude and the Advent of Battle Tags
I was a pretty late adopter of cell phones. I don't really like talking on the phone, and phones at the time were just that – a bit big and clunky, nothing like the smart phones of today. They didn't have games or any other distractions. I finally gave in to the cell phone trend when I moved away from home to go to college. My Mom insisted I needed one since I was moving to a larger city, as a safety measure. I got a "Pay as you go" type and hardly ever used the minutes on it.
Moving to the city was in itself a transition for me. I came from a town of about 70,000 people and moved to my city just as it was marking its millionth citizen. It's not the biggest city, but it was a pretty large adjustment! As I made my way around my new city, exploring the downtown, taking the train and the buses, I was struck by a feeling: No one knew where I was. This wasn't a scary realization, rather, it was liberating. In my old town, you couldn't go to the grocery store without running into at least three people that you knew. This used to drive me crazy, especially because my mother worked at a school and knew hundreds of kids and their parents. It used to irritate me because I just wanted to go through the cereal aisle or whatever without having to always stop and chat. In my new city where I knew so few people, I could have a coffee, go draw in the botanical gardens, spend hours wandering around on my own and no one would bother me. I loved it.
I still carried my cell phone with me. But my distaste for it was driven home after an altercation with my father. Frustrated that he couldn't reach me, he complained: "You never answer your cell phone! What's the point of even having it?" I told him in no uncertain terms that I had a phone for emergencies and in case I needed to reach anyone. It was not a guaranteed way to get in touch with me. I wasn't going to be at anyone's beck and call. This was over ten years ago, mind you. Since I first reluctantly brought my clunky phone in my purse, smart phones and constant internet access have become an expectation. Twitter, e-mail, text messages, Facebook messages, instant messages and cell phones give people almost immediate access to each other. The introduction of Real ID into the Blizzard family of games lets you play with all of your friends – and don't get me wrong, I think it's fantastic. But there are a few drawbacks.
The stoic refusal to introduce an invisible mode into Real ID (and now, I assume, Battle Tags within Diablo) has been a constant thorn in my side. Like when I first explored the city unattached, sometimes I want to play a game without someone knowing where I am. Suppose I wanted to roleplay on another server for awhile – all of my Real ID friends can see my character name, server, and zone. If I want to login to my bank alt and just spend some time auctioning, everyone can see that too. Even if I just want to make a silly lowbie alt and play quietly by myself, I can't do that. I'm far from the first person to bemoan the lack of an "invisible" mode with Real ID. The counter-argument is, "Why are you playing an MMO if you don't want to talk to people? Just don't use Real ID if you don't want anyone to bother you." But that seems really ridiculous to me, and overly simplistic. A person might go to a coffee shop by themselves in real life and read a book or just sit. It's not expected that anyone will just walk up and sit at their table and talk to them. "But why did you go to a coffee shop if you didn't want to talk to people?"At another time, you go to a coffee shop with a friend to chat and catch up over a hot drink. You shouldn't have to choose that you ALWAYS want to go for coffee only with friends, or that you always want to go for coffee always alone. If it wasn't for Real ID, I wouldn't be able to run five-mans and raids with friends from other servers and factions. I love Real ID. But there are times when I also hate it.
Because solitude doesn't necessarily have to be anti-social. There should be room for stillness in every day life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be alone sometimes. I really struggle with this because I get messaged a lot in Real ID. And the people I have in Real ID are my friends, so it's not that I don't want them there. But sometimes I just don't feel like talking – and this even applies in real life. Voss knows more than anything, because he is more extroverted than I am. Sometimes I'll be reading something quietly and he'll be talking to me and after a few minutes of "Mmhm," or me not responding he'll say wryly, "You're 'peopled' out, aren't you?" He's usually right. Being social takes energy from me. It's possible to overdose on it. At those times, I really wish that Real ID had an invisible feature. It's possible to manage your status with "Busy," and "Away," but that requires that people pay attention to your status and also respect it. It can be hard to tell a friend, "I just don't feel like talking now," without hurting their feelings or making it seem as if it's something to do with them.
Now that I'm adding Battle Tags in Diablo III, it's my understanding that the tags will carry over to the Real ID system in WoW, and I'll be honest, I'm wary. I'm not quite sure why I need to be able to connect to Battle.net to be able to just play Diablo by myself (as sometimes, I am going to want to do just that). Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to be able to play with a wider range of people than I had available to me on Real ID. I've met so many great folks via blogging and Twitter that I'd love to game with. But if I have you on either of those systems, don't be surprised if someday I'm set to busy and I don't respond to your messages, or I don't tweet back at you right away, or immediately answer your e-mails. Sometimes I may deliberately let my phone go to voice mail, close my Twitter client, and sit quietly by myself. Since the days when I played Super Mario Brothers and Bubble Bobble, gaming has been an escape for me. I could sit for hours and play – and sometimes I'd play for hours with my Mom or a friend, too! I love shared gaming experiences, and I love solitary ones. With our current expectations of connectivity, it can seem radical or selfish to say "I'm not available at the moment," but trust me – sometimes everyone needs a little space to get lost in the world, virtual or otherwise. Diablo III seems like it'll be a blast to play with other people, and also solo. I promise to respect your "Busy" tag if you'll respect mine, since it doesn't seem like invisibility is on the horizon anytime soon.


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Now that you've had time to digest our CES 2013 coverage, we're ready to pivot and start talking about the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. One indication of what to expect there comes straight to us from Samsung Head of Mobile communications JK Shin: he told iNews24 that the company would be introducing an 8-inch Galaxy Note tablet at this year's MWC, a follow-up to last year's Galaxy Note 10.1.
While smartphones seem to keep getting bigger and bigger (and the Galaxy Note lineup itself is leading that charge), most tablet manufacturers are moving to make their tablets smaller. Amazon helped kick off the trend in 2011 with its Kindle Fire, and 2012 saw the introduction of several high-profile general-use tablets like Google and Asus' Nexus 7, and Apple's iPad mini. Samsung has sold smaller Android tablets before (the Galaxy Tab 7.0 and its sequel), but this new Note tablet would presumably add the lineup's signature S Pen and active digitizer to the mix, perhaps along with some of the multitasking capabilities found in the larger Note.
We weren't thrilled by the Note 10.1's build quality or price in our original review, but given the popularity of the Galaxy Note smartphones, we could see finding room in our bag for a more compact (and hopefully more solid) version that makes productivity apps its bread and butter. We don't really know anything else about the tablet at this point, but we would guess that it would ship with an Exynos 4 or Exynos 5 processor, a price somewhere between $200 and $300, and the Jelly Bean version of Android (either 4.1 or 4.2; the version 4.1 update just started rolling out to the Wi-Fi version of the Note 10.1).
Ars will be on the floor at MWC next month, and if Shin was right about his company's plans, we'll get you some proper hands-on impressions as soon as we're able.


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The Washington Nationals are pulling out all the stops for the final week of the home season, with a promotional schedule filled with special events and fan giveaways.
Today at Nationals Park, the team upped the ante for the presidents race as well, putting all four of the racing presidents on Segway personal transporters for the last day game of the season.
Teddy Roosevelt pulled out first and took and early lead, followed closely by Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln. With the Segways acting as natural speed-equalizers, it was Teddy's race to lose, but he lost control of his segway at the outfield turn, and started spinning in circles. Tom beat Abe to the finish line to take his first presidents race victory since August.
Perhaps Teddy needs to take Segway lessons from general manager Jim Bowden, who rides a Nationals logo-covered Segway around the team's spring training fields in Viera, Florida.
After a day off Monday, the Nationals will host the Florida Marlins for the final home series of the season starting Tuesday night.
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Ever since this past Kosherfest, we are getting quite a few questions about olive oil. There were a few olive oil producers at the show and apparently people got very interested in their products. Just as we finally thought we'd better blog, explain and demystify olive oil, we came across this superb post by Chef Laura Frankel – who explains it far better than we could – on her blog:
Olive oil is the fruit oil obtained from the olive. Commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, soaps and fuel for lamps, olive oil is grown and used throughout the world but especially in the Mediterranean.
Olive oil is produced by grinding or crushing and extracting the oil. A green olive produces bitter oil and an overripe olive produces rancid oil. For great extra virgin olive oil it is essential to have olives that are perfectly ripened.
Purchasing olive oil and knowing how to use it can be confusing. Add to that, the kashrut factor and it is no wonder that consumers and home cooks are bewildered by the array of products on supermarket and specialty market shelves.
Here is a summary of olive oils and their uses:
• Extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) comes from virgin oil production only, contains no more than 0.8% acidity. Extra Virgin olive oil accounts for less than 10% of oil in many producing countries. The superior fruity flavor makes this oil best used for vinaigrettes, drizzling on soups, pastas for added richness and a fruity taste and for dipping breads and vegetables. Extra virgin olive oil does not require hashgacha (even for Pesach) as it is cold pressed.
• Virgin olive oil comes from virgin oil production only, has an acidity less than 2%. This oil is best used for sautéing and for making vinaigrettes. It is generally not as expensive as the extra virgin olive oil but has a good taste. Does require hashgacha.
• Pure olive oil. Oils labeled as Pure olive oil or Olive oil are usually a blend of refined and virgin production oil. This oil is perfect for sautéing. It does not have a strong flavor and can be used for making aiolis and cooking. Does require hasgacha.
Extra virgin olive oil is the highest quality olive oil. It is typically more expensive than other olive oils. Extra virgin olive oil is typically not recommended for high heat cooking. Every oil has a smoke point. A smoke point refers to the heat temperature at which the oil begins to break down and degrade. An oil that is above its smoke point not only has nutritional and flavor degradation but can also reach a flash point where combustion can occur. You can observe this when you have a very hot pan and hot oil and food is added to the pan and it produces a bluish and acrid smelling smoke or worse yet, catches fire.
Extra virgin olive oil has a very low smoke point of 375. I use my best extra virgin olive oil for making vinaigrettes, adding luxurious fruity flavor to pasta dishes, garnishing foods, baking and dipping breads.
Extra virgin olive oil has a long list of health benefits from reducing coronary artery disease and cholesterol regulation.
My favorite extra virgin olive oil is an unfiltered oil from Spain. It is rich, luscious and smells like artichokes and tomatoes. I recently tasted an oil from France that was rich and buttery. Olive oils like wines have a distinct taste or terroir depending upon where they are grown. I urge home cooks to shop the specialty and gourmet shops for their olive oil. The supermarket oils are often lacking in flavor and are frequently misleading in the origin of the olives. The bottle may say that the oil was bottled in Italy but not mention where the olives were grown. The olives could have come from many different countries and in different stages of ripeness which yields an off tasting oil.
Estate grown oils are picked at the perfect stage of ripeness and pressed right after harvest. This ensures a balanced oil that is luscious.
Baking with olive oil is easy and yields a moist delicious cake. I use Meyer lemons in this recipe. Meyer Lemons are a cross between a tangerine and a lemon. They are sweet and very juicy. They are in season now and can be found at most markets around the country.
- 1 cup olive oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 tablespoon Meyer Lemon zest
- ¼ cup Meyer Lemon juice
- ¾ cup
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a tube pan and set aside.
- Whisk together olive oil, sugar, eggs and milk.
- Gently stir in flour, salt and baking powder until a thick batter forms.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 50-70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Lemon Glaze
- 3 cups confectioner's sugar
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup Meyer lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup or brown rice syrup
- ½ teaspoon vanilla bean, scraped
- Simply combine all ingredients together in a large and heavy saucepan. Stir constantly over low heat until the mixture reaches 110 degrees F on a candy thermometer.
- Pour evenly over cooled cake and allow to harden before serving.
Enjoy the cake recipe and your use of olive oil whether in your salads or anything else.


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iPhoneDevSDK—the site apparently responsible for the hacks at Facebook, Apple, and Twitter—says it was not aware it was being used to attack visitors until it read press reports this week. In a news post (do not click if you're wary of security breaches) on Wednesday, site admins said they had no knowledge of the breach and were not contacted by any of the affected companies. Though, iPhoneDevSDK is now working with Facebook's security team in order to share information about what happened.
"We were alerted through the press, via an AllThingsD article, which cited Facebook. Prior to this article, we had no knowledge of this breach and hadn't been contacted by Facebook, any other company, or any law enforcement about the potential breach," wrote iPhoneDevSDK admin iseff.
"What we've learned is that it appears a single administrator account was compromised. The hackers used this account to modify our theme and inject JavaScript into our site. That JavaScript appears to have used a sophisticated, previously unknown exploit to hack into certain user's computers," he went on. "We're still trying to determine the exploit's exact timeline and details, but it appears as though it was ended (by the hacker) on January 30, 2013."
As a precautionary measure, the site has reset the forum passwords for all its users, though it says there's no evidence any data was taken.
A person with knowledge of recent attacks that hit Apple, Facebook, and Twitter told Ars all three companies were targeted using the same iPhoneDevSDK page. Such techniques are often referred to as "watering hole" attacks. Just as predators camp out at ponds in wait of thirsty prey, hackers often infect sites frequented by employees of the companies they want to penetrate.
Apple has not explicitly pointed towards iPhoneDevSDK as the site that led to its own hack, announced on Tuesday afternoon. The company did say, however, it was hacked in the same way as Facebook. Apple hinted in an e-mailed statement to the media that an unnamed "website for software developers" was involved. This has led to many observers tying the two together—an unconfirmed, but not unreasonable assumption.
The security breaches at both companies were due to an undocumented vulnerability in the browser plugin for Oracle's Java—an increasingly common problem for those running Java on their machines. This is part of why Apple removed the Java plugin from all Mac-compatible Web browsers in late 2012, then blacklisted Java browser plugins on OS X twice already this year in order to prevent critical exploits. But many users—particularly developers—still have uses for the Java plugin, potentially putting them at increased risk for attack.
"The attack was injected into the [third-party] site's HTML, so any engineer who visited the site and had Java enabled in their browser would have been affected regardless of how patched their machine was," Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan told Ars last week.
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How Hungry Girl shed the pounds without guilt
LOS ANGELES (AP) — She never set out to become the maven of guilt-free, fun-food dieting, the go-to girl for people who want to have their cake — and cheeseburgers and chili fries — and eat them, too, without getting fat.
No, 10 years ago, Lisa Lillien says, she was just another 30-something LA "Hungry Girl." Someone who needed to drop 15 or 20 pounds and would do so periodically by following an all-liquid diet or a one-meal-a-day diet or whatever other weight-loss regimen was in vogue.
Afterward, she'd return to her beloved jam-slathered bagels and french fries and gain it all back.
"Then one day I just woke up and I said, 'You know what? That's not the way to tackle a weight problem,'" says the trim but not skinny Lillien who, presides over a multimillion-dollar empire of Hungry Girl cookbooks, low-calorie recipes, specialty products and TV shows, all of them geared to letting people eat the junk food they love and not get fat.
The trick is discovering why you're eating too many calories, says Lillien, as she dashes from a couch at Hungry Girl headquarters to the kitchen, to help an assistant whip up baked potato skins stuffed with cheese and bacon.
In her case and, she believes, most everybody else's, too many people are unwilling to give up comfort foods like pizza, spaghetti, cookies and cake in the name of better health.
Neither is Lillien, who likes to joke there was a time when she'd climb over a table to steal a companion's french fries.
These days she just remakes them — and a thousand other foods.
Her baked potato skins, for example, are really made out of zucchini stuffed with low-calorie cheese and bacon flavoring.
She bakes her chili-cheese fries and uses butternut squash, not potatoes. They clock in at 268 calories, about a quarter the amount in traditional fries.
Recipes for those and other feel-good foods like lasagna, pizza and spongecake have placed Lillien atop a brand that has grown phenomenally in the eight years since the former TV executive came up with the name (it just popped into her head one day) and blasted a daily email to 75 people.
Today, 1.2 million subscribers get a mix of recipes, advice and ads for food companies like Star Kist and General Mills, whose products she endorses.
Lillien, who started the business at home, now oversees a staff of 12 at a sprawling office in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
To some extent, the headquarters more closely resembles a huge teenage girl's room with a kitchen thrown in. Pillows and cushions scattered about are decorated with pictures of Tootsie Rolls, Sweet Tarts and other candies. Cans of soup, packages of nuts, bowls of chips and other ingredients are stacked here and there. On one wall a silk-screen depicts a can of Campbell's Soup, with Dino the dinosaur from "The Flintstones" TV show, on the label.
It's here that Lillien and her staff experiment, mad-scientist-like, she says, with thousands of recipes.
The result is Italian, Mexican, Chinese and even unique Hungry Girl food, the latter including all kinds of egg-white concoctions that can be microwaved in a mug. That came about because even before she began counting calories she was often too lazy to pull out a skillet and fry anything.
The recipes she whips up can be found on her Food Network and Cooking Channel TV shows and in her seven books, which have sold more than 2.5 million copies, according to her publisher, St. Martin's Press. Her latest, "Hungry Girl to the Max: The Ultimate Guilt-Free Cookbook," debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list for paperback advice books last month.
Although food bloggers sometimes snipe about her recipes being as low in nutritional value as they are in calories, Matthew Shear, St. Martin's executive vice president, says she "speaks to an audience that loves to eat and is looking for a way to eat the things they love at a fraction of the calories."
That audience, he adds, includes himself. He professes to be a big fan of her Lord of the Onion Rings recipe (155 calories) and her various mug cake desserts (you microwave them in a mug).
Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian who has published her own cookbooks, calls Lillien's recipes low-calorie junk food.
But, Blatner quickly adds, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
"Two out of three people in this country are overweight. Do they need fewer calories? Is her whole enterprise teaching ways to achieve that? Yes," says Blatner from her Chicago office. For people who won't give up pizza and cheeseburgers, the Hungry Girl diet might not be a bad alternative.
Even Blatner says she's sampled some of Lillien's recipes, although she stays away from ones that use processed food products, preferring fresh fruit and vegetables.
"The spaghetti squash and butternut squash, the fun things she does with apples, I get most excited about those," she said.
Lillien believes her lack of credentials as a dietitian or a nutritionist actually gives her more credibility with her audience, which realizes she's one of them, just another foodie who doesn't want to sacrifice taste for trimness.
"If I'm helping people turn boxes around and turn cans around and read labels and understand what it means and learn how to maintain a healthier weight, then I'm doing good work," she says.


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Q: We're going to be in London this summer and would like to make a side trip to Mykonos. I'm trying to figure out which airlines fly nonstop from London to the island and how much fares would be, but it's not particularly easy to do. Can you help? Also, is there an official Mykonos tourist site?
A: As far as I can make out, British Airways (www.ba.com) flies this route nonstop from London's Gatwick Airport only, with fares as low as $130 each way, but many dates are completely sold out for travel in July and August, and only the higher fares are available on days when there are seats. Also a possibility is Astraeus (www.flystar.com), which I believe offers nonstop charter flights from Gatwick, and charter operator XL Airways (www.xl.com), also from Gatwick. As a side note, other airlines flying nonstop from European cities to Mykonos are TUI, Condor and Transavia, among others. You can find route maps for these and dozens of other airlines on the Airfarewatchdog.com route maps page. Visit the island's Web site at http://www.mykonos.gr, and you'll find some reviews of Mykonos on TravelPost.com.
Q: I saw on the news that if you purchase a plane ticket and the price goes down you can get a refund. How does this work?
A: Southwest, United, Alaska, JetBlue and US Air will refund a difference in fare if you buy a non-refundable ticket and it goes down in price before you depart. The refund issued by these airlines is in the form of a voucher good for future travel for up to a year, and they do not deduct an administrative or change fee. You cannot change your flight times or days of travel. Only the fare may have changed. Other airlines also offer refunds, but they deduct between $25 and $100 (on a domestic ticket) from any voucher they issue you. So it's wise to check your fare even after you purchase, and to fly with airlines that don't deduct fees. A new site called Yapta (www.yapta.com) promises to alert you if a fare you purchased has gone down in price and you qualify for a refund. Yapta works with most major U.S.-based airlines but not with Macintosh computers or the Mozilla Firefox browser (only Internet Explorer).
Q: I don't use a computer, and I'd like to make a pilgrimage to the Phillip Johnson Glass House, which I've heard is now open to the general public. How does one arrange a visit, and is the house reachable for someone who doesn't drive?
A: You can purchase tickets by phone, by calling 866-811-4111, however it appears that all tours are sold out for the rest of 2007. Tours are not given over the winter, so the next available dates are in the spring of 2008. Reaching the Glass House visitor center in New Canaan, Conn., is fairly easy by public transportation. Take the Metro North Railroad's New Haven Line from Penn Station in New York City to the New Canaan stop, which is right across the street from the center. Computer users can visit www.phillipjohnsonglasshouse.org for more information.
Q: I saw that United was having a sale to Taipei, so I got to wondering if it's worth a visit. Is it? Also, I gave up trying to find the official tourist site. Do you know where it is?
A: I think Taiwan is one of the most fascinating and geographically diverse places to visit in Asia. Last year I woke up from a nap while flying across Asia and happened to look out my window at what appeared to be the snow-capped Swiss Alps. Grabbing the airline's in-flight magazine, I quickly figured out from the route map that those frosty peaks were Taiwan's Yushan mountain range, whose highest peak is nearly 12,000 feet. The country's national parks also afford some brilliant scenery closer to earth, and the National Palace Museum is home to the foremost collection of Chinese art and objects in the world (there are 700,000 treasures, only a fraction of which are on view at any one time). And if you're a shopper, you'll find amazing bargains on anything made in the country, including designer eyewear, electronics, computer parts and bicycles.
Try http://www.taiwan.net.tw, the country's official tourist site, for more reasons to visit.
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Tugboats or towboats (whatever you prefer), share the fact that they go bump. More than a little and most of the time. It's dangerous work and always has been. That's why they're wrapped in rubber all the way around. The first time a new crew member steps on the boat we want to impress on them to be aware of their handholds at all times. "One hand for the boat, one hand for yourself". You definitely have a responsibility for your own safety.
The bump can come at any time of the day or night, in any weather, fair or foul. Getting "waked" by a passing boat or a hard contact under the bow of a container ship or maybe laying up alongside a raft of barges, it always has the potential to be a substantial impact. Adding a little twist to that is the deckhand will usually be a couple to a few hundred feet away from the wheelhouse and may be out of our direct line of sight. A radio in one hand and the other holding on during the approach is the rule.
If you give the facts their due, all that rubber wrapped tonnage has to make contact with unwrapped tonnage to do its job. It's our raison d'etre. Sometimes the bump is gentle, sometimes it's hard enough to jar a few fillings loose. The "bell-ringer" happens frequently enough that it shouldn't come as a surprise. Someone is always training, but it's not just the novices that score a hit every now and then.
The boys working the decks of boats doing scow work are accustomed to the bump. Scows don't get all that much TLC, they're built for the banging around they get. They bump and grind more than Gypsy Rose Lee.
Ship work involves getting "up close and personal" with the walls of steel that seem to pull you in with their own special kind of gravity. We really don't want to land hard on a ship, but….
Even though oil barges are built with substantial steel framing and double hulls, we try very hard to avoid banging them around. All that "explosiveness" should give one pause….not to mention the liability of opening one up anywhere.
Timing, weather and skill play a part in it all. But even the best boat handler's have a hard bump now and again. It's part of the job, tug boating is definitely a contact sport.
A deckhand has the primary risk to fall victim to a hard contact if he doesn't have an eye on what's happening and have a firm grip on something. The easiest way to go swimming (or worse) is to be approaching the berth and you're on deck with your head up your ass dreaming of crew change, cold beer and warm women.
If you take the time to examine the way things happen it should come as no surprise that when you're about to land alongside a couple of moored units they are not necessarily laying tightly packed together. There will be some slack in their lines, especially if the other units have been laid up for a tidal cycle or two.
Even though you've made the initial landing "eggshell safe", once your first line is out and wrapped up the force of the tug working ahead or astern will now move ALL the barges until everything fetches up. Think "billiards", one contacts another and so on until all the lines have taken up the strain.
It probably won't be the initial contact that gets you, it's the after shocks that are the killers. After some time aboard a tug and if you've really honed your "situational awareness", you'll learn that when two or more large steel boxes are in close proximity, there will be bumps (note the plural). The sometimes fatal mistake occurs when one forgets that simple fact.
In bad weather you'd probably (hopefully) have a keener awareness of how dangerous things are since footing becomes difficult in heavy snow or visibility is challenged in darkness, rain and wind. Work vests can restrict movement, safety glasses may be fogging and diesel exhaust will impair your vision, all good reasons to be cautious.
Fair weather dockings would seem to be of less concern, but you should be holding on anyway since you can be lured into that false sense of security by the balmy breeze and not notice how quickly the boat is closing with the berth.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — With federal and state online health care marketplaces experiencing glitches a month into implementation, concern is mounting for a vulnerable group of people who were supposed to be among the health law's earliest beneficiaries.
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country with pre-existing chronic conditions such as cancer, heart failure or kidney disease who are covered through high risk-insurance pools will see their coverage dissolve by year's end.
They are supposed to gain regular coverage under the Affordable Care Act, which requires insurers to cover those with severe medical problems. But many of them have had trouble signing up for health insurance through the exchanges and could find themselves without coverage in January if they don't meet a Dec. 15 deadline to enroll.
Administration officials say the federal exchange, which covers more than half the states, won't be working probably until the end of November, leaving people just two weeks to sign up if they want coverage by Jan. 1.
"These individuals can't be without coverage for even a month," said Tanya Case, chairwoman of the National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, which represents the nation's high-risk pools. "It's a matter of life or death."
High-risk pools were created by state legislatures to provide a safety net for people who have been denied or priced out of coverage. While the Affordable Care Act will forbid insurers from turning away people in poor health, those who qualify for a subsidy must enroll through the state or federal marketplace.
More than a dozen of the 35 states that run insurance pools for people with serious medical issues will permanently close their pools within a month and half. Other states will keep their pools running for a few more months.
The federal pool covers about 100,000 people and was created in 2010 by the Affordable Care Act as a temporary bridge until the law fully kicks in. It will cease to exist at the end of December.
"I'm scared. I'm in the middle of my cancer treatment, and if my insurance ends, I'm going to have to cancel the rest of my treatment," said Kelly Bachi, an Oklahoma boat repair business owner who has breast cancer and is covered through a pool.
Cancer treatment without insurance would cost her about $500,000, she said.
Bachi has not been able to enroll via the healthcare.gov federal website, although not for lack of trying. She attempted to sign up half a dozen times, was eventually able to create an account, but was later blocked from accessing the account.
Others — including Jill Morin of Raleigh, N.C., who has a severe heart condition and is covered by her state's pool — have not attempted to enroll.
"It's the unknown, the uncertainty that gets to me," Morin, 42, said. "I don't know what my cost will be at the end of the day. I don't know if my two cardiologists and my procedures are going to be covered under the plan. There just isn't enough information on that website."
But, she said, she has no choice. She must pick a plan soon because she can't afford to go without. She plans to go to an insurance broker for advice, then contact the federal call center to bypass the online marketplace altogether.
State officials throughout the nation have been scrambling to figure out how to help people like Bachi and Morin.
Last week, the board of the Oregon Medical Insurance Pool — which covers about 11,000 people — ordered the state to create a contingency plan for its members because the state's online exchange still has not enrolled a single person.
For now, the only way to enroll for coverage in Oregon is to fill out a 19-page paper application. The state has so far received just 7,300 such applications from all Oregonians, not just those in the pool, but it has not yet processed any of them. The process takes up to several weeks, so no one has completed it and successfully enrolled, Cover Oregon spokesman Michael Cox said.
Oregon pool administrator Don Myron said he hopes to speed up enrollment for its members by mailing them a paper application and following up to make sure they filled it out.
In Indiana, the Department of Insurance extended the high-risk pool coverage until at least Jan. 31 because of difficulties with the federal health insurance exchange. Its pool covers about 6,800 people.
The move was crucial, officials said, because people in the pool were not able to schedule treatments without proof of health coverage for the coming year. Indiana will spend $6.3 million to extend the coverage.
In Wisconsin, the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan that covers 24,500 people is rolling out an outreach effort to make sure their members are signed up by the deadline, chief executive Amie Goldman said.
The state created a worksheet and directories of carriers to help people prepare for enrollment, has sent postcard reminders and is answering questions through its Facebook page and weekly newsletters.
Many of those in high-risk pools across the nation will be shopping for insurance for the first time in years.
"Even if the technology was really perfect, it would still be hard to sign up because many people who are really sick don't respond well to change," said Linda Nilsen Solares, executive director of Portland-based Project Access NOW, which connects uninsured people with care. "Many of them are just trying to get through the day."
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Google has released version 1.1 of Go, its open source programming language, bringing significant performance improvements.
"We have made optimizations in the compiler and linker, garbage collector, goroutine scheduler, map implementation, and parts of the standard library," Google engineer Andrew Gerrand wrote on the Go blog yesterday. "It is likely that your Go code will run noticeably faster when built with Go 1.1." Go 1.1 is compatible with Go 1.0, so all users should upgrade.
Go was unveiled in 2009 after being developed inside Google for a couple of years. It was designed from the start to offer an "expressive type system, fast compilation, good performance, and built-in language features that simplify threaded programming and concurrency," as Ryan Paul wrote for Ars at the time. Google uses Go internally for a few services, including the server that delivers Chrome binaries.
Go isn't Google's only programming language; the company has also built Dart, an alternative to Javascript.
Go code should run 30 to 40 percent faster in the new version, Google said:
Typical improvements relative to Go 1.0 seem to be about 30%-40%, sometimes much more, but occasionally less or even non-existent. There are too many small performance-driven tweaks through the tools and libraries to list them all here, but the following major changes are worth noting:
- The gc compilers generate better code in many cases, most noticeably for floating point on the 32-bit Intel architecture.
- The gc compilers do more in-lining, including for some operations in the run-time such as append and interface conversions.
- There is a new implementation of Go maps with significant reduction in memory footprint and CPU time.
- The garbage collector has been made more parallel, which can reduce latencies for programs running on multiple CPUs.
- The garbage collector is also more precise, which costs a small amount of CPU time but can reduce the size of the heap significantly, especially on 32-bit architectures.
- Due to tighter coupling of the run-time and network libraries, fewer context switches are required on network operations.
You can find a full list of changes in Go 1.1 on the language's official site.